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Arthur Ditzel

Arthur Ditzel

System Director of Emergency Management and EMS Outreach at Westchester Medical Center Health Network; healthcare emergency management leader with 30+ years in EMS, fire service, and hospital emergency operations.

Jun 24, 2026

The Employee Safety Podcast

The Employee Safety Podcast

Preparedness Lessons From 30 Years of Emergency Response

Jun 24 · 22m

Peter Steinfeld
Peter SteinfeldHOST
10:50
When you think back on your career, what's been one of the most defining experiences that shaped your perspective on healthcare resilience? I can tell you it was a lot of little
Arthur Ditzel
Arthur DitzelGUEST
10:59
things over the years working in EMS.
Arthur Ditzel
Arthur DitzelGUEST
11:02
When I was a new EMT and starting out, we had a freight train in the town that I worked in, and it went maybe five or six miles an hour.
Arthur Ditzel
Arthur DitzelGUEST
11:11
And somehow or another, somebody always ended up getting their car clipped by that train.
Arthur Ditzel
Arthur DitzelGUEST
11:16
Wow.
Arthur Ditzel
Arthur DitzelGUEST
11:16
Every couple months, the car would get tripped by that train.
Arthur Ditzel
Arthur DitzelGUEST
11:19
It was an unguarded crossing.
Peter Steinfeld
Peter SteinfeldHOST
16:03
I'd walk through fire and I did walk through fire for him.

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